24-port and 36-port antenna cubes suitable for MIMO wireless communications

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1170-1176

  Chiu, Chi Yuk ^a   Yan, Jie Bang ^a   Murch, Ross D ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Lot antenna; Multiple input multiple output (MIMO) capacity; Multiple input multiple output (MIMO) cube; Mutual coupling

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL CAPACITY; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); COMPUTER SIMULATION; MIMO SYSTEMS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ANTENNA CUBES; MIMO WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS; MUTUAL COUPLING;

SLOT ANTENNAS;

EID: 42549114789     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2008.919202     Document Type: Article

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